Who don't knows the Mustang?
It was the best land-based fighter of the war, and after the war, every country and many particulars had at least one. Even today, you can find Mustangs in flying condition in many airports of the world.
Usually when you think about Mustang users, you think about European and North American ones. But the Mustang was used by almost every Air Force of the world.
In 1944, the Allied Powers admitted the Swedish Air Force to buy fighter aeroplanes. The most important matter was to equip the Fighter Wing F 16 at Uppsala with modern aircraft. In March 1945, 50 Mustangs were purchased for F 16. This number included four machines which had made emergency landings in Sweden during combat missions during the war and been retained here. Two of these were the older version P-51B, "Razorback". 46 aircraft were flown from the UK by American pilots in March and April 1945. All Mustangs, both P-51B and P-51D were given the Swedish designation J 26.
In March 1946, further 90 P-51D Mustangs were bought, this time for Wing F 4 at Östersund, which now was to be converted to fighters. A last batch of 21 aircraft was purchased, intended for F 21 at Luleå, the most northern Air Force Wing. Twelve of these Mustang were rebuilt as reconnaissance aircraft and thus got the designation S26.
The J 26 was fitted with a Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin V-1650-7 (or in some cases V1650-3) engine developing max. 1720 (1650) hp. It was armed with six 12,7 mm automatic cannons.
Most of the Swedish Mustangs were later resold abroad. Israel bought 25, the Dominican Republic 42 and Nicaragua 25 aircraft. Not a single plane was kept in Sweden. The only preserved Mustang on Sweden was bought back from Israel and is now displayed at Flygvapenmuseum (Sw AF/n 26020) (Taken from avrosy.nu/aircraft/yakt/114j26-1)
The plane you'll be flying is carrying the swedish serial number 26146, was know as "Red 16" and was assigned to F 21 at Luleå, the most northern Swedish Air Force.
There is another swedish P-51D for Flight Simulator 98, and actually Mikael Karlssonis has released the first two P-51B of Sweden for FS2004.
This is a Paint Kit By the Digital Aircraft Team. Aircraft Originally Designed by Andrew C Wai, repainted by Alejandro Hurtado
My previus repaints are:
For Fs2002 only:
b190ah6: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express
b190ah7: Beech 1900D from the canarian island's Air Atlantic
b737ah8: American Airlines Astrojet, a 2001 plane painted like the 60´s
b737ah12: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration.
c235ah13: The CN-235 was used by the spanish line Binter Mediterraneo
d328ah15: The two Do-328 (prop) of Welcome Air
d328ah16: Air Engiadina was the launching client of the DO-328
For FS2002, in Fs2004 the night cockpit lightning doesnt looks well from outside:
b727ah1: Green and yellow Braniff's 727
b727ah2: 727 flow by Viasa when was bought by Iberia
b727ah3: Braniff 727 painted by Alexander Calder
b727ah4: One of the first 727 flow by Kulula.com
b727ah11: Alaska Airlines 727 leased to the Seattle NFL Team Seahawks
For FS2002, displays a warning in Fs2004 but works ok:
Ju52mlka: Ju-52 owned by Milka chocolats company, in flying state
tornah10: Tornado in 2001 Tiger Meet painting
For FS2004 and FS2002:
l1011ah9: Two L1011 leased by Iberia
d328ah14: The only Do-328JET of Welcome Air
atr4ah17: Two of the ATR-42 owneds by Lai, a venezuelan company
pby5ah18: A water bomber PBY Catalina, the Canso 71 was used in Spain
pby5ah19: A water bomber PBY Catalina, in red painting from Spain.
b727ah20: 727 flow by Singapore Airlines
d328ah21: DO-328 (prop) Welcome Air, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah22: Alaska Airlines 727, upgraded for FS2004
1049ah23: Super Constellation belonging to Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
b727ah24: Green and yellow Braniff's 727, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah25: Blue Braniff's 727.
1049ah26: Super Constellation from Iberia
d328ah27: Do-328 prop of Air Engiadina, upgraded for FS2004
p51dah28: P-51D Cripes a'Mighty 3rd, a beautifull warbird
b757ah29: Three liverys of the same B757 from LTE to Volar Airlines
b727ah30: Viasa's 727 with Iberia-like colors, upgraded for FS2004
d328ah31: Do 328 flow by VIP Airlines.
b737ah32: Rutaca's 737 in the colors of the Vinotinto Football Club
p51dah33: The only venezuelan P-51D
b727ah34: Red Braniff 727
a320ah35: A320 when LTE was renamed as Volar Airlines
b737ah36: American Airlines Astrojet, upgraded for FS2004
b727ah37: 727 charter flow by Amerijet
b757ah38: 757 Prestige, the biggest spanish private plane
p51dah39: Two P-51D Taiwan Air Force
p51dah40: Another P-51D Taiwan Air Force
p51dah41: P-51D Popular Liberation Army Air Force
p51dah42: Another P-51D Popular Liberation Army Air Force
d328ah43: Do 328-110 from Swisswings
met3ah44: Metro 3 Air Catalunya, a spanish charter company
met3ah45: Three Metro 3 operateds by Key Lime Air
b737ah46: The famous spanish 737 from Air Europa with Martini stickers
carvah47: Two Caravelle operated by Finnair
crvlah48: Two Finnair's Caravelle.
b737ah49: two 737-200 owned by the venezuelan company Avior.
crvlah50: Two Caravelles from the spanish line Hispania
p51dah51: This P-51D appeared in the movies "The Empire of the Sun" and "Menphis Belle"
b190ah52: Beech 1900D from Us Air Express, upgraded for FS2004
c130ah53: A civilian C-130 from Tepper Aviation.
b727ah54: Boeing 727-200 from Pride Air
b737ah55: A BWIA 737-800 in caribean decoration. Upgraded for FS2004.
b737ah56: A Boeing 737 from Lauda Air in Star Alliance painting
d328ah57: The only Do-328 owned by Federico II
pby5ah58: Two PBY Catalina in red painting
b737ah59: B737-200 of Phoenix Airlines painted in "Boeing-like colors"
b727ah60: The five prototypes of the Boeing 727 in "house" colors.
1011ah61: L-1011 converted in a Flying Hospital
b737ah62: Ryanair's Boeing 737 with Christmas decoration as was in 1995
md11ah63: Finnair's Md-11 as Official Airline of Santa Claus.
Fixes:
fix01ah: Fixes the bottom color of b727ah24
fix02ah: Improves the flight dinamics of b757ah29 and b757ah38
Warranty:
I love the warranty wrote by Andrew W. Hall:
"None. Zip. Nada. Use at your own risk. I dont think
this will harm your computer in any way, but if it does, I
dont even want to hear about it."
A last remark: Why don't become a repainter? There are a lot of planes with special markings. I'm tired of the usual F-16 low-vis scheme, or the usual 757 in Delta markings. Why don't a "Bat's outa Hell's" B-25 or a serie of Qantas 737s? The plane modelers like Andrew C Wai are very important, but they can't make all the painting schemes by himselfs. So why don't help him and his friends?
INSTALLATION:
Just unzip p51dah64.zip in your "Aircraft" folder of FS2002, FS2004 or FS9 (make sure "use folder names" is checked) and copy the gauges folder content in the correspondent one.
